The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl

Jay & Karl
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The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl Podcast

Two guys, one podcast and a whole load of the latest technology news, games and gadget reviews, film insights and the occasional rant! Join us as we review the main tech talking points of the week!

  1. 6 SEPT

    Episode 180: It's Time for OpenAI's $100 Billion Rescue, Concord's Shutdown, Starlink's Compliance, and Bluetooth's Upgrade

    Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly bail out OpenAI from the shackles of bankruptcy, pushing the ChatGPT maker’s market valuation to over $100 billion Concord Is Suddenly Getting Pulled Offline With Sony Promising Full Refunds Elon Musk's Starlink will comply with the Brazil X ban after all Bluetooth 6.0 brings new technology that will help Apple improve its Find My network Rumours Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly 'scheduled to officially launch in September' and we'll believe it when we see them We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

    41 min

  2. 31 AUG

    Episode 179: It’s Time for ARM and AMD’s Bold Moves Against Nvidia, EU iPhone App Flexibility, and Apple’s‘Glowtime’ Event

    Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Arm reportedly spooling up major new GPU architecture to take on Nvidia AMD signs $4.9 billion deal to challenge Nvidia’s AI infrastructure lead EU iPhones will be able to change the default phone and messaging apps soon Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year Apple September 9 event invite promises ‘It’s Glowtime’ We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

    39 min

  3. 20 AUG

    Episode 178: It’s Time for Strategic Shifts at Cisco and Apple, Google’s Pixel 9 Unveiled, and the Latest in iPhone and AirPods Rumours

    Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Rumours We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

    45 min

  4. 12 AUG

    Episode 177: It’s Time for Intel’s Costly Reconfigurations, Expanded Game Worlds, and Apple Watch SE Speculations

    Episode 177: It’s Time for Intel’s Costly Reconfigurations, Expanded Game Worlds, and Apple Watch SE Speculations Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Intel Bleeds Red, Plans 15% Workforce Layoff and $10B Cuts For 2025 Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage Games Grey Zone Warfare Car destruction lovers rejoice, Wreckfest 2 is on the way Flight Simulator 2024's huge ambition means 'you can now exit the plane, walk around… you can land on every ship, and it looks like a first person shooter environment' Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for fall 2025, and there's still no sign of a PC version Rumours The next Apple Watch SE might be plastic, but is that worth the tradeoff? We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

    43 min

  5. 5 AUG

    Episode 176: It’s Time for Intel’s CPU Crisis, Delayed Apple Intelligence, Key Security Breaches, and Colourful iPhone 16 Revelations

    Episode 176: It’s Time for Intel’s CPU Crisis, Delayed Apple Intelligence, Key Security Breaches, and Colorful iPhone 16 Revelations Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent Apple Intelligence reportedly may not arrive until October with iOS 18.1 Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update Rumours The iPhone 16 color lineup looks like the best in years New image shows off iPhone 16 Pro colors, including darker Black Titanium We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

    46 min

  6. 31 JUL

    Episode 175: It’s Time for CrowdStrike’s Global Windows Snafu, Musk’s Big Texas Shift, Cellebrite’s iPhone Conundrum, and Ultra-Slim iPhone Rumours

    Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Elon Musk is moving X and SpaceX to Texas Cellebrite can’t unlock most iPhones running iOS 17.4 and later Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world Wiz rejects Google’s $23 billion takeover in favor of IPO Rumours New ultra-slim iPhone 17 to focus on form over function with just one camera We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more e

    55 min

  7. 16 JUL

    Episode 174: It's Time for Skeleton Key's AI Threat, TSMC's 2nm Milestone, Big Moves at Google and X, and Xbox's Pricing Strategy

    Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News 'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft TSMC ahead of schedule on trial production of 2nm chips; iPhone 17 first in line Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup Google is reportedly planning its biggest startup acquisition ever Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new ‘Standard’ tier Elon Musk’s X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive Rumours iPhone 16’s new Capture button: Everything we know We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

    47 min

  8. 9 JUL

    Episode 173: It’s Time for Cloudflare’s AI Defence, Tap-to-Pay Evolution, Security Breaches Galore, and Meta’s Smart Glasses Challenge

    Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Tap-to-pay could get more capable and more complicated Authy hack exposes phone numbers of 33M users; Twilio confirms Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard source code breach also impacted federal agencies Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera Rumours Kuo: Apple to begin mass production of AirPods with cameras by 2026 HomePod with display corroborated by references to a new Apple ‘HomeAccessory’ We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

    42 min
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Two guys, one podcast and a whole load of the latest technology news, games and gadget reviews, film insights and the occasional rant! Join us as we review the main tech talking points of the week!

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